Stock for vending-machines.



H. ELSAS.

STOCK FOR VENDING MACHINES.

APPLIOATION FILED 11110.16, 1912.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914.

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STOCK FOR VENDING-MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 10, 1914:.

Application filed December 16, 1912. Serial No. 736,995.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, I'IERMAN ELsAs, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock for Vending-Machines, of whiclrthe following is a specification.

This invention relates to stock for vending machines and particularly to that class of such machines as are adapted for vending or dispensing nested paper cups.

The object of my im in'ovements is to provide a stock of the class specified having features 01'' attractiveness and salability in excess of those heretofore provided.

My improvements are illustrated in their preferred embodiment in the drawing accompanying this specification whcrein- Figure 1 is a cross sectional elevation showing conventionally the discharge end of a vending or dispensing machine and con taining a supply of my improved stock. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of a detail of my improvements. My improved stock for vending or dispensing machines includes a plurality of nested receptacles herein illustrated as paper drinking cups and each thereof containlng a piece or pieces of merchandise; said stock is therefore seen to. comprise a plurality of vendible packages each including a receptacle having a piece of merchandise therein.

As illustrated the delivery end of said vending machine may comprise tubular portion 2 having a plurality of supports as for engagement. with and for supporting the stack of nested cups by engagement with the flange of the lowermost cup in the stack. Said stack is illustrated as including cups or receptacles 4, 5, G and 7, cup 8 having been discharged and illustrated as falling from the receptacle. Preferably I provide pieces or wrapped pluralitics of pieces of merchandise, as 5), of such thickness as to separate the receptacles between which said merchandise lies a greater distance than those receptacles would be separated in the absence of said merchandise. This is clearly illustrated by merchandise 9 lying between cups -1- and 5 in contrast with thinner merchandise l3 lying between cups (5 and 7. In the former case the upstanding walls of cups at and 5 are separated from one another as shown at 12, while in the case of cups 6 and 7 the correspomling walls are in contact as shown at 14-. The object of thus separat' ing said cups is to facilitate the vending thereof by preventing the upstanding walls of one cup sticking to or becoming wedged against tlr sc ot' the adjacent cup.

Anotln r feature of my improvements comprises the peculiar merchandise wrap ping illustrated in Fig. '2 wherein cover 10 has corners as 11 projecting beyond said merchandise and said corners are turned downwardly whereby feet are provided for spacing the containing cup from the cup nested therein, all clearly shown in Fig. 1.

I claim:

The combination Of a plurality of nestcd receptacles with a package of merchandise between two of said receptacles. said package having corners projecting beyond said merchandise and folded against said package, whereby feet are-provided for spacing said two receptacles from each other.

Signed at, New York. in the county of New York and State of New York. this 13th day of December, 1912, before two subscribing witnesses.

. HERMAN ELSAS. \Vitnesses:

H. lVi'UNsnY, F. P. MILLS. 

